Agreed! I put in a request for this about a year ago: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/299 There is a bit of follow-up discussion there.
John +++ Joachim Breitner [Aug 06 09 16:27 ]: > Hi, > > (this is mostly a rant, but hopefully a constructive one) > > the Haskell/cabal/hackage eco system is pretty great, as we all know. > But there is one huge gaping omission there: Changelogs! > > I’m involved in packaging Haskell stuff for Debian. Now, the Debian > tools we have for that tell me „Hlint has a new version, 1.6.5, which is > newer than the one you packages, 1.6.4. > > Huh, nice. What has changed? Is it relevant for Debian? Is it worth a > new upload? There is no easy way to find out: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hlint lists no changes > http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/hlint/ lists no changes > (and not every package has a homepage) > http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/darcs/hlint/ contains on Changes file > (and not every package has a (linked) darcs repository) > http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/darcs/hlint/ also has no web frontend. > > Which leaves me with the option of getting the darcs repo and looking > through "darcs changes". If I know of a repository for the package. > > So please, package authors, put Changes files in your packages and keep > the current for now. > > And cabal/hackage guys: Llease introduce a standard Changes format for > cabal packages so that http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hlint readily > lists (or links to) changes. > > Thanks, > Joachim > > -- > Joachim "nomeata" Breitner > Debian Developer > nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C > JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
